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March 2006 - Riding the rollercoaster

US natural gas prices have proven to be susceptible to weather-related price swings. Andy Weissman looks at what a risk manager should consider when designing a price risk management program

The rise of mechanistic hedging

Utility hedging gains wider acceptance, but companies still need to work harder to eliminate pure price-view hedging, writes Leigh Parkinson of RiskAdvisory

Full steam ahead

The rising cost of shipping fuel is causing more and more shipowners and commodity merchants to consider risk management strategies, and some sophisticated marine fuel trades are taking place as a result, writes Barry Parker

Hedging weather exposure

Volumetric weather risk is usually levered by the commodity price, resulting in cross-commodity exposure known as a quanto. Hedging such exposure with quanto instruments is costly. Victor Dvortsov suggests a simple strategy that allows efficient hedging…

Coping with setbacks

Most risk managers and employees in energy companies are familiar with the concepts of market risk and credit risk, but operational risk is receiving more attention in corporate boardrooms these days, writes Sandy Fielden

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The new man at the helm of the US economy

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's maiden testimony in February reassured the bond markets with soothing tones of continuity with the Greenspan era. But with question marks still hanging over his inflation policy, and how much of an impact his personal style of…

Back to Basics

We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask... Karl Wyborn, head of derivatives collateral management sales at JPMorgan in London, runs through the A to Z of collateral management

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